The better news was that, for the first time since last May 20-22, Cardinals starting pitchers worked at least seven innings in successive games. The bad news, as you have gathered by now, was that the Cardinals won neither the Friday start of Adam Wainwright, who allowed one run in seven innings, or the Saturday start of Miles Mikolas, who gave up two over seven innings.
“Listen. We left some people on base but Miles was fantastic. He was tremendous. We played some good, clean defense. We got their starter (Jordan Lyles) to 50 pitches after basically two innings.